It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dianic Wicca. (Discuss) Dianic tradition ("Dianic" as in "of Diana") is is a feminist, earth-based neo-pagan Goddess-honoring religion similiar in many respects to Wicca. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Dianic Wicca, also known as Womens Spirituality, Feminist Spirituality, Feminist Witchcraft, and Feminist Wicca. ...
Diana was the equivalent in Roman mythology of the Greek Artemis (see Roman/Greek equivalency in mythology for more details). ...
Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ...
Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism, meaning New Paganism) is a heterogeneous group of religions which attempt to revive ancient, mainly European pre-Christian religions. ...
A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. ...
A Neo-Pagan pentagram: a symbol used by many Wiccans. ...
Dianic tradition is difficult to define, because it is a spiritual tradition that encourages creativity, celebrates diversity, and demands personal empowerment and responsibility. There are few Dianics who see themselves allied with or involved in a specific lineage, though most acknowledge Z. Budapest as the founder of the tradition, even if they don't acknowledge her as their foremother or base their practices on her 1970s ovarian book, The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries. This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...
For some, Dianic tradition is every day folk religion, hedge-witchery or kitchen-witchery. For others, Dianic tradition is more formal, with highly developed liturgy and cosmology. For most, in its essence Dianic tradition is a Women's Mysteries tradition, linked to such traditions across time and across cultures. They are a celebration of women's bodies, women's experiences, the Divine Feminine, and the biology and culture of womanhood, rather than rejection or dismissal of men and masculinity.
Most Dianics conceive of and experience the pagan Wheel of the Year in terms of both seasonal reality and also the life stages of women and of the Great Goddess: maiden, mother, queen, crone and hag.
Some Dianics, like Wiccans, celebrate together in large-group rituals and spellcrafting on the sabbats (seasonal holy days) or the esbats (full-moon days). There are Dianic covens and circles, however many Dianics are solitary practitioners by preference or circumstance.
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